{"id":203008,"date":"2025-01-03T05:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/secret-lab-developing-uks-first-quantum-clock"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:06:30","slug":"secret-lab-developing-uks-first-quantum-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/secret-lab-developing-uks-first-quantum-clock","title":{"rendered":"Secret lab developing UK\u2019s first quantum clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/secret-lab-developing-uks-first-quantum-clock2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A top-secret lab in the UK is developing the country\u2019s first quantum clock to help the British military boost intelligence and reconnaissance operations, the defense ministry said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The clock is so precise that it will lose less than one second over billions of years, \u201callowing scientists to measure time at an unprecedented scale,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trialing of this emerging, groundbreaking technology could not only strengthen our operational capability, but also drive progress in industry, bolster our science sector and support high-skilled jobs,\u201d Minister for Defense Procurement Maria Eagle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top-secret lab in the UK is developing the country\u2019s first quantum clock to help the British military boost intelligence and reconnaissance operations, the defense ministry said Thursday. The clock is so precise that it will lose less than one second over billions of years, \u201callowing scientists to measure time at an unprecedented scale,\u201d the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,9,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-military","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}